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Facebook, Exploited By Influence Campaigns, Tries To Clamp Down With 'War Room'

The social networking behemoth says a new command center at its Silicon Valley headquarters will let it respond quicker to foreign disinformation operations ahead of Election Day.

With midterm elections just two weeks away, Facebook says it's ramping up its operations to fight disinformation.

The social media behemoth has established a "war room" at its headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., where specialists try to detect and disrupt bad actors trying to delegitimize elections, spread fake information, and suppress the vote.

"One of the strengths of having everybody in the same place together is just the speed with which we were able to act

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